Arizona’s paranoid racist teabagger trolls will usually only crawl out of their fallout shelters on the rumor of a good illegal alien desert hunt, but a cool murder weapon giveaway always comes in a close second. The Pima County GOP knows this about their insane constituents, so they are selling raffle tickets to win a Glock pistol to anyone who donates $10 or more to their campaign war chest in memory of the Gabby Giffords shooting in their district that made Glock pistols so popular with fearful teabagger assholes right after the massacre. Never forget, Arizona!
From the HuffPo:
On August 26 the Pima County Republican Party sent out its regular online newsletter, e-Tracks. It contained your standard newsletterisms – an intro from the chairman, a description of local candidates, a calendar of upcoming events, and so on. But this particular issue also featured an eye-catching giveaway to raise money for GOTV (Get Out the Vote) efforts.
For just $10, readers can purchase a raffle ticket (out of 125 offered) for a chance to win a brand new handgun. Not just any handgun, but a Glock 23.
Arizona Republicans surely know just how effective this particular brand of gun can be. After all, it was only eight months ago that Jared Lee Loughner used a Glock 19 in Tucson – the seat of Pima County – to shoot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head.
Maybe a Glock pistol would even make a good campaign logo when the Arizona GOP finally runs a candidate against Giffords in 2012? [HuffPo]
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KKKlassy!
This defies explanation.
During their annual Young Republican Scholarship Awards Night the Pima Repubs stage a fabulous "Battle Royale" among the scholarship winners. Well, only among the darker skinned winners. The lighter skinned kids are always too busy with other things to join in. Too bad for them though cause the "coins on the carpet" scramble at the end is a blast. The voltage is exhilarating and the change comes in handy when you head off to college!
Guns don't kill people. Women who stick their heads in the way of guns kill people.
Guns don't kill people. Republican legislative priorities kill people.
Guns don't kill people; the RNC platform kills people.
You should see the door prizes when they hold their Casino Nights!!!
A freshly polished pair of jackboots?
Case of hand grenades and a Confederate flag?
I guess this means Rick "Goodhair" Perry will be auctioning off a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle next.
Man licker–sound like what a male cheerleader would do.
Too soon!
No, wait…too late!
Is that your post in memory of Nilist?
Neilist's posts are of the highest caliber (sorry).
Mem, in your heart you know you're not one bit sorry for that gun pun. Thumbs up, too, also.
weejee:
He's just trying to be a big shot.
Have these people lost their fucking minds or what? Jesus, just a Glock 23, can't they get an autographed Glock 19 from Jared Loughner for this raffle? What a bunch of pansies.
they never had this thing you call "minds' to begin with.
Witness the election of Russell Pearce or Joe Arpaio, BFF w/ Steven Siegal
Isn't Steven Siegal a rapist ?
Giffords/Glock '12
OUCH
Prizes will be awarded at a meet-and-greet in the Safeway parking lot. Must be present to win.
You are so going to hell for that. lol
What's the second prize? A cool clown painting signed by John Wayne Gacy?
That's the one Bachmann will be raffling off.
That's the third place prize. Second place wins you a small fertilizer bomb.
Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
No big deal 'cause it isn't the same gun. Hello?? It s 23 which is not the same as a 19; it's four more.
These go to eleven.
Bless your heart. That actually made me laugh even though it was completely unintentional on your part.
Where is neilist to weigh in on this?
Colonel Kurtz voice: "The trash…the trash…"
The desert state of Arizona would be such a great place for all of the world to dump all their nuclear waste and unwanted ordinates, don't you think. Free market! No regulations! Whoo!
It's just an accident that Yucca Mountain is in Nevada, and Yucca City (Ken's home town!) is in California.
Wait a second, how do you know where Ken was born? Today is my one year anniversary in Wonkette and the only things in my orientation packet:
a pack of Newports
some Jolly Ranchers
and a Little Debbie snacky cake that was way past the expiration date.
Aw, happy anniversary. I guess mine was last Tuesday, although I didn't start commenting right away. And, I never received an orientation packet. Perhaps this is why I remain so disoriented.
Would you like a Little Debbie?
What? All I got was a half-full bottle of 5 O'Clock Vodka and one of those little plastic coin purses shaped like a football.
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Poppycock, Barb. Everyone knows that Ken was born in the state of Despair. Either that, or across state lines in Misery.
I kid, I kid.
All I got was gummy bears with some kind of fuzz on 'em.
I thought Texas.
Poor New Mexico—so far from Heaven, so close to Texas.
…and Arizona!
Arizona tried to dump their nuclear waste in Puerto Penasco, Mexico. they did not consider that the damn activists against this terrible idea would:
1. shut down the border on a holiday.
2. trapping thousands of Americans on the Mexican side.
This was a very successful protest all in all.
No nuclear waste is ever going to be dumped in Puerto Penasco.
Lots of Native people (one-third of the population; another third is Latino).
My husband is Hispanic. I'll have him warn them. In their secret language. Shhhhh… Don't tell Alberto Gonzolez.
The $10 fee will be waived for those who hear voices in their heads.
Remember the bumper sticker: "Today The Voices Told Me to Stay Home and Clean My Guns."
Don't forget the blind. Can't the blind buy guns in AZ?
ADA specifically requires it.
Because of the NRA they are allowed to hunt.
Retreat/Reload 2012
With or without the Loughner endorsed 30 round clip?
DAMN IT! You beat me.
S/he probly will, too, given half a chance. With a Glock 23.
According to the Wikipedia article, the largest magazine for the 23 has 15 rounds. You'd really have to get two of them.
Oh, my bad – turns out they're offering it with not one, not two, but three 12-round magazines. So if you can master the fast reload, you can still outfire Loughner.
well, the old lady tackling lobby is going to have to train that much harder, won't they?
O.U.C.H.
Is there any chance that Rick Perry will take Arizona with him when he makes Texas its own country after losing the presidential race?
He can have Alabama and South Carolina, too. And if Haley Barbour is still running things lets throw in Mississippi for good measure.
From your lips to the Doggess's ears.
No, they will all become deadly rivals!
But how does this effect Sarah Palin?
Here's one instance where it'd be nice for her to be a victim!
She is the victim, because she didn't get a cut of the $10, and yet it was her website that help popularize shooting people in Arizona.
Raffle libel?
She is making a special poster targeting this fund raiser.
Needs more surveyor’s marks.
Up next: fundraising for drug rehabilitation centers. Enter the raffle to win a shitload of coke.
You mock, but there is a bar where I live that will buy you a round if you turn in your sobriety chips. Maybe the owners were originally from Arizona.
Qu'est-ca "sobriety chips"?
As I understand it, when you are in a 12-step program, you get tokens when you stay sober for a certain period of time—six months, one year, etc. Turn those in at the Recovery Room, and the first drink’s on them.
Interesting. According to the overly dramatic hand-wringing of my teabagger relatives, Obama was supposed to have taken away everyone's guns by now.
Yeah, when's he gonna get around to that? Slacker…
He gave a hell of a lot of them to the Mexican Drug Cartels.
I was kinda HOPING he'd have taken the guns away forn the morns by now, he's had THREE YEARS dammit! (only reason I voted for the black guy really…that and gay abortions)
Wow it’s usually not like the Arizona GOP to be this tone deaf; they could have at least thrown in a few extended clips.
As much as I'd like a Glock 23 (already own the 22 and the 27), I don't think I'll contribute $10 to these fucktards.
You only have two hands anyway.
Amateurs
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5408/moe5guns.jp…
It's not a gun, it's a surveyor's tool.
Lets raffle off flight lessons(not how to land of course) for our 9-11 fundraiser!
How about an raffle for a Richard Speck replica knife to raise money for Filipino nursing education in Chicago?
Or, raise money to fight hunger and win the Jeffrey Dahmer cookware set?
Oh man… that is hilarious.
I find your comment to be in poor taste.
Signed,
Ed Gein
It's a (Wisconsin) Death Trip, in fact.
One free Astrological consultation to the raffle winner.
As above, so below
Zodiac Killer
JOHN CARROLL LYNCH LIBEL!!!
This reminds me of that time back in 1993 when everybody was raffling off rental trucks full of fertilizer.
or 2001 when box cutters and commercial flying lessons were all the rage.
Arizona GOP: Rock out with your Glock out!
I'm holding out for the AK-47 raffle. Hand guns are for wussies.
Gunpowder? Fuck off. Tactical nuclear device or GTFO.
It's the infantry mantra… "Use your handgun to fight your way to a rifle. Use the rifle to fight your way to base camp, where you call in an airstrike."
Never Forget to avoid visiting Arizona. No problem there.
Am I the only one who noticed that this is an Austrian pistol? BUY EMERICAN!!!
No
yea, Ruger is PISSED about this too.
Needs more dakka/high-capacity magazines
Stay classy AZ
I have an even better idea for an event fundraiser prize giveaway.
Stuff a piñata with loaded Glocks and, to hell with taking turns, let 'em all club it at once to get the "prize."
And what are the rules for "Pin the Tail on the Donkey?"
Shoot anything that won't hold still long enough for you to pin something to it. Rinse. Repeat.
Although I am anti gun, I am almost at the point where I need to go get one, just in case the teabaggers decide that they should continue to shoot liberals, but now enmasse. Although, I tend toward pacifism these guys are making the idea of shooting back very very attractive.
Dude, I was having these thoughts 18 months ago. What took you so long?
Seriously. I bought a .22 just to learn on the cheap.
I assume, given the skill teabaggers have demonstrated so far with everything else, that more guns means more teabagger nuts getting shot off. This is self-limiting behavior.
I always chuckle when I hear these RW'ers go on about how they have all the guns. I'm a dirty fucking hippie with a VERY stocked gun safe, and I compete, fairly successfully. There are a lot of us pinkos packing.
Make sure you take classes so you know how to use it. Thats all I fuckin' ask of any gun owner, damn it.
And practice.
Terrorists.
The least that they can do is give Gaby a free ticket — even though she already owns at least one Glock.
Consolation prize.
Sorry Pima County GOP, but before I chip in $10 I need to know that you will chip in an extra big magazine. If I got to whip out my Glock, 15 bullets ain't enough.
But remember, Jared Loughner was a lone nut and it is irresponsible to suggest that violent eliminationalist right-wing rhetoric was in any way responsible for his actions. Just like Scott Roeder, Eric Rudolph, Anders Breivik, Tim McVeigh, . . .
Those were all Isolated Incidents. And incendiary rhetoric had nothing to do with it either.
I, uh, ah, uhhh…. I live in Tucson. I went past the UMC shrine for the victims every goddamn day on my way to work. I cannot muster a response to this.
I know, and imagine how Gabby will feel when she hears of it? It's cruel, actually- not merely assinine.
Hey! Why don't they sell rides in crashing 737s to help build a 9/11 memorial?
Just to be obtuse, B767s…
If we're all going Second Amendment, Dems should raffle off a Röhm RG-14, the gun Hinckley used back in '81. Even though it is a POS as handguns go.
We called them "Owlheads" back in Missouri, but they still kill pretty good. Lot's of cops carried them as "throwdown" guns. It wasn't too uncommon to roll a body over after a police shooting and find two or three Owlheads underneath.
Tackier than the "Housewives of Beverly Hills!"
I'm having a fund raiser and we're giving away a Röhm RG-14 .22 cal. blue steel revolver , a replica of the one that Hinckley used to shoot Reagan. I would have it on March 30, the anniversary of the shooting, but who can wait that long. Its scheduled for Sept. 7, the same date as the next GOP primary debate.
Should I send you the money or Jodi Foster?
send me Jodi Foster.
Or her army
Revolting.
Raffle 'em all and let God sort it out!
So one asshole shoots someone with a glock and henceforth glocks are bad? I have been wanting to get a 23 for a while, since it is a more compact version of the 40 cal than the 22 I have.
look libtards, someday the teabaggers are going to go all out shooting at us, so we might as well be prepared.
I suggest a Kimber .45.
I'm a Sig Sauer man. Always have been and always will be.
my uncle showed me his chrome sig 9mm and I wanted to gay marry it.
Condoms aren't just for penises.
well I HAVE always had a thing for 1911s…
I have the SP2022 and a nice P290 2 tone. I had a few family members who were cops and sold them to me at a good price.
Get the 27. With Pearce extensions you can up the capacity, and it's far more portable. It's a bit "snappy" to shoot, but there you go.
I've decided to go the martyrdom route myself.
Mossberg 12 Gauge Pump w/ pistol grip. A third of the money, ten times the effectiveness.
Nothing says 'HALT' like a pump being slammed forward.
People who never heard a word of English understand that sound the World over.
FTW
yea, but doesn't RUGER make something just as nice?
Then they would be supporting an Arizona business instead of reminding everyone of a terrible tragedy. Too soon, damn it.
I haven't seen this much suggestive comparison talk since a naked beach party at Fire Island years ago.
Get a room!
well. my beloved wonkette is apparently armed to the teeth.
this little lady now feels mighty protected and is less concerned about the upcoming perry administration.
i hope some / several of you are in chi and/or LA.
The glock isn't bad; these fuckers using a glock as a raffle prize in fucking Pima County is bad. Get it?
2nd prize: your very own illegal to shoot!
I wouldn't enter any stupid raffle unless the prize was something like a rocket launcher or a box of hand grenades.
No burning crosses? No burning buildings? No free time at a tent city jail? Fuckos.
What a bunch of woosies. The Puma Thuglicans shoulda raffled-off a W48 tactical nuke.
In related news, the Pima County Democratic Party is raffling off an AOL Chat account and a tube of water soluble lube.
I'm not a big Billy Joel fan, but every now and then his lyrics resonate…
"Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity
A reason coexists with our insanity
And so we choose between reality and madness
It's either sadness or euphoria"
Is this real, or did I skip my meds again?
Yes.
All of them, Zoidie.
And while waiting to see if they won the big prize they can just continue pass around the dog-eared copy of Soldier of Fortune or Cross Dressing Mercenaries or whatever the fuck it is that they jerk off to.
Once again, as a forty-year Georgia Resident, I can only heave a sigh of relief when I read drek like this and say "Well, at least I don't live in Arizona!".
The disgrace is that it takes a murderous gang of AZ thugs to make GA seem habitable, and I'm a lifer here with you.
Whimper!
Both states are going to have food wars since there are no longer any illegals to pick the crops.
Really? I have a shitload of them remodeling the house next door and it's a three-month job.
Must have political connections…IOKIYAR
They're not mine, they are working for my neighbor, but I don't think he has any connections. They are all over Marietta, Ga. I don't mind, but they drive a lot of the locals crazy.
I'm just delighted that the blogad accompanying this story is for Laura Griffin's novel Snapped, which promises "Passion in the Crosshairs" and encourages us to "Shoot to Thrill."
It's apparently part of the "Tracers" series of thrillers.
Gritty!
What's second prize, a helmet?
This is as dumb as putting crosses in churches.
You think that's what Jesus wants to see ever again?
One of my favorite comments ever.
I'm just glad he was crucified, and not drawn and quartered.
Why a raffle? I thot Arizonerans were issued Glocks for free by the state gummint. To protect themselves against the things that hide under their beds, Mexicans and Democrats.
Fuck those fucking fuckers.
I am speechless.
I thought that was OK, but they went a little too far when they listed Jared Loughner as their Honorary 2011 Fund-Raising Chair.
This kind of shit makes you think about cheering for the Mexican drug cartels, down there, 'cause really, are they any worse? It really is too bad that Pima County is in Arizona.
Next stop for Pima County GOP? All you can eat BBQ Ribs Rally at Auschwitz. Who's hongry???
If it contains that chemical-creme filling, yes. Goodness knows, I'm sure that stuff can't actually be digested and probably has more carcinogens than that pack of Newports, but I still kinda love it a lot. *Hangs head in shame.*
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Purist.
And…. there he is! Your expertise is needed here on the icky matter of guns.
Never make change. Just keep the big bill.
Please. Any further mutation would be fatal.
And evolving was already pretty much out of the question.
Twice!
knew you couldn't resist this one. Like a bee to honey, like a pig to slop, like a dog to its own vomit.
welcome back
Like Liberal Communist Pinko SKUM to whine? Or wine. Whatever.
Seriously, though: The Model 27 is a bit too much cartridge for too little grip.
But the tradeoff is that you can dry fire the Glocks all day long, without damaging the firing pin or chamber. So you can practice squeezing off a "Congressional Headshot" until you get it right .
Also, the S&W .40 cal. has about 1/3 more muzzle energy than a 9mm (depending on the cartridge). So if you headshot a Representative with a Model 27 (or Model 23) instead of a Model 19, there is much less chance that the Nation will have to suffer through another one of those bathetic "Brain Damaged Congressperson Returns To Floor To Vote For Liberal Communist Pinko SKUM Debt Ceiling Increase" bills . . . .
Neilist
"The Very Name Means 'Caring.'"
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